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“Flea said I might get the gig”: Jane’s Addiction bassist Eric Avery recalls his 2003 audition for Metallica
By Brian Fox published
After surviving Jane’s Addiction and touring with Alanis Morissette, Eric Avery was granted an audition with metal giants Metallica

Geezer Butler names his favorite bassist of all time
By Joel McIver published
His basslines with Black Sabbath are iconic, but Geezer Butler’s still a fan with his own four-string idols

“I needed to get out of the way of it”: OG Incubus bassist Dirk Lance on how Drive taught him to stop overplaying
By Michael Astley-Brown published
Alex Katunich’s busy slap and pop basslines fueled much of the band’s early output, but in a rare new interview, he explains how their biggest hit forced him to take a step back

Darryl Jones on his journey to The Rolling Stones – from Miles Davis to Sting, Herbie Hancock to Peter Gabriel, and Madonna
By Chris Jisi published
The Rolling Stones bassist is a force of nature, with a stage and session career second to none

How Ryan Martinie redefined metal bass playing for a new generation with Mudvayne
By Chris Jisi published
Ryan Martinie stepped out as a 21st-century bass hero on Mudvayne’s The End of All Things to Come

Fretted, fretless, double bass, eight-string – Sting is unstoppable on bass. Here’s how he developed his style
By Nick Wells published
Songwriter, actor, author, activist, rock star, jazz freak... Gordon 'Sting’ Sumner is quite the renaissance man. Oh, and he played bass in The Police…

How Willie Weeks' unbelievable solo on Donny Hathaway's 1972 Live album made him a bass legend
By Chris Jisi published
After being introduced as “the baddest bass player in the country,” Willie Weeks kicked off his now iconic solo

Did Paul McCartney fumble a note on this classic Beatles bassline?
By Nick Wells published
Recorded at Abbey Road Studios on October 16th, 1965, see if you can hear the bass glitch where McCartney “breaks” the main riff

Viral bass hero Blu DeTiger just gave the Fender Jazz Bass a radical revamp – but she started on a Gretsch she left in a taxi
By Nick Wells published
We talk to the bassist with 1.4 million fans on TikTok about how DJing influenced her bass playing, and sending her new signature Jazz Bass to Flea
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